At least 138,500 Whales and Dolphins at Risk

Originally posted by Meaningless
Are we going to do something about this or are we just gonna discuss how bad and sad it all is?

Well Meaningless, to answer your question, a suggestion that something we posters on this thread could do already is send a U2U to all out ATS friends
to let them know this thread exists and then ask them to do the same thing etc etc...

Its only a start here on ATS but if people want a thread like this to have a positive impact on this Forum then word will spread even easier...

So, exactly how did they come up with the number 138,500? Is this every whale and dolphin they think exists, or what? Seems like bull cookies to me.
It's a pressure wave. It doesn't reach everywhere, any more than the bang made by a lightning strike on the ocean.

Marine Life and Coastal Economies Threatened by Seismic Airgun Use in Atlantic Ocean
All Press Releases…
At least 138,500 Whales and Dolphins at Risk

April 16, 2013
Washington, D.C.
Contact: Dustin Cranor
Amelia Vorpahl

Oceana released a new report today showing that marine life and coastal economies along the Atlantic Ocean are threatened by seismic airguns used
in testing for offshore oil and gas. The United States government itself estimates that the use of seismic airguns along the East Coast – an area
twice the size of California, stretching from Delaware to Florida – will injure and possibly kill 138,500 whales and dolphins, and disturb necessary
activities for millions more.

“Instead of learning from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster three years ago, President Obama is now considering taking the first steps to expand
our dangerous dependence on fossil fuels to the Atlantic Ocean, an area that has been protected from drilling for more than 30 years,” said
Jacqueline Savitz, deputy vice president for U.S. campaigns at Oceana. “With minimal oil reserves there, and drilling at least five years off,
seismic testing is an unnecessary insult to whales, dolphins and other marine animals. Drilling in the Atlantic won’t lower gas prices; it will
instead lead to more oil disasters and more dependence on fossil fuels. Focusing on developing cleaner energy sources would be more strategic for our
country and more sustainable for our oceans.”

During this testing process, a vessel tows one or more seismic airguns, which shoot extremely loud blasts of compressed air through the ocean and
miles under the seafloor every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for days to weeks on end. The airguns are 100,000 times more intense than a jet engine and
can disturb the vital behaviors of fish, dolphins, whales and sea turtles, causing temporary and permanent hearing loss, driving animals from their
homes, disrupting mating and causing animals to become stranded on beaches. Some of these disruptions can lead to death, and for populations that are
already struggling, this could have devastating consequences. Airguns and offshore drilling also threaten commercial and recreational fisheries, as
well as tourism and coastal recreation, putting more than 730,000 jobs at risk in the blast zone alone.

Originally posted by luciddream
I wish this thread would get some attention but.. with the whole bombing discussion....

@ least the vibrations are felt from these Creatures even if not accepted THEY ARE... And so those who feel them? Thank GOD for telepathic and
advanced observation abilities as it would seem many are not concerned even if subconsciously they are.

[color=cyan] It's too bad that some people aren't better stewards of the environment and the creatures that are in it. These seismic guns can do
irrepairable damage. I really hope the activists out there get a petition or some other kind of attention drawn to this. Thank you for posting,
MariaLida. S&F.

this sort of situation upsets me so deeply, it makes me so angry that this can even be a legal thing to do,

the torture those animals must be going through is unbearable to even think about,

What scares me the most is that if i go to work tomorrow and tell people about this they won't even bat an eyelid, they'll most likely say, ''as
long as we get something out of it i'm not really bothered'', just like they did when fracking was re-allowed again not so long back, even though
only a couple of years earlier it had been banned here in the uk as it caused several earthquakes, people have such short memories it scares me,

I don't want to see the sea life die either, but your not going to like the solution. Drill on land! Otherwise, stop complaining about killing the
sea life. It will be one or the other, so pick one and leave the other one be.

Originally posted by Agent_USA_Supporter
I believe its time to stop the gas and oil industry or otherwise we will lose our Whales and Dolphins.

So you are saying you want to not have a car, electricity, plastic, fiber optic communication, and countless other things that are made from oil or
it's derivatives? I think not. The bottom line is that it is much safer and has far less impact on the environment to extract oil from land than the
sea. You can't have a modern standard of living like we do without oil/gas, and the alternative "green" solution is actually far more polluting. Just
in batteries alone, the pollution is far beyond the gas alternative. First you need oil to make the plastic parts, then all the plastic parts to store
the acid. The acid for a hybrid car is much worse to the environment to make than any gas car will ever be in it's entire lifetime. I like the idea of
being green, but lets not kill the world trying to save it.

You can't really be serious? Nothing actually comes out of ATS. Yeah we can talk about doing something about it but in the end it never
happens, NEVER. We are very few on this site, what we discuss here isn't going to leave the board. There's pretty much nothing we can do because no
one wants to challenge the system. Even protesting doesn't work and if we try to stop them through violence it only gets us jailed up or worse,
killed.

I wanna believe we have power to change what we see, but the truth is we are only creatures that are taught to follow and not lead.

I signed the petition in hopes that it will help, however I'm skeptical. I was one of the 250.000 people who signed the petition asking the president
NOT to sign The Monsanto Protection Act and we all know how well he listened to us on that one.

Cooperate greed and profits supersede EVERY living thing on this planet

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